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Security researcher Charlie Miller working with consulting firm Accuvant has released a prediction regarding the future of iOS jailbreaking. And it’s not pretty, as far as end users are concerned. Softpedia readers are no strangers to infamous hacker Charlie Miller, the guy who hacked the bits out of Apple&rsq... |
5 February 2013
05:56 GMT |
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“Monday I start on the security team at Twitter. Looking forward to working with a great team there!” Charlie Miller wrote yesterday on his Twitter account.
The name of the ex-NSA employee has made a lot of headlines in the past months. In November 2011 he was banned from Apple’s developer program ... |
15 September 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Prominent hacker and security researcher Charlie Miller believes Apple is a company like any other, in that it cares most about the bottom line. He offered his thoughts, and elaborated quite a bit, in an interview with Markin Abras at MacDirectory.Abras recalls that Miller last year demonstrated a proof-of-concept at... |
11 July 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, a hacker best known for pirating Apple’s iOS and Mac operating systems, is now on the DoD’s for providing invaluable advice on cyber security.NATO is bringing in la creme de la creme in the hacking community to gain protection for its information systems.Miller was invited to the conferenc... |
8 December 2011
04:26 GMT |
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The release of iOS 5.0.1 fixes a lot of errors and bugs that could have affected users but the most interesting of them is by far the one reported not long ago by Charlie Miller, the Accuvant Labs researcher who was kicked off the Apple developer program for his unique presentation of the vulnerability.
The flaw wh... |
11 November 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Giving new meaning to the expression ‘take one for the team’, Charlie Miller got himself kicked out of the Apple Developer Program by exposing a bug that may lead to ‘untethered’ iOS 5 jailbreaks.Fellow hacker @pod2g wrote on Twitter that “the bug Charlie MILLER found can simplify exploi... |
10 November 2011
03:41 GMT |
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A security researcher called Charlie Miller discovered a serious vulnerability in iOS that would allow a remote attacker to run an unsigned code from a remote server.Threat Post reported that in order to prove his findings he submitted an application to the iTunes App Store and once it was approved he could use it pr... |
8 November 2011
11:07 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, the famous security expert who has been able to hack pretty much every Apple device known to man, is being denied use of his developer license for security research purposes after showcasing a type of malware that the App Store review board failed to detect and unknowingly approved.Miller reportedly f... |
8 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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A renowned security researcher has discovered that the microcontroller used to monitor the power level of an Apple laptop can be compromised. This can allow a hacker to run custom code, potentially even causing the battery to explode.Security expert Charlie Miller, notorious for his hacking feats against Apple system... |
23 July 2011
13:08 GMT |
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Famous security researcher and long-time Mac and iOS hacker, Charlie Miller has offered his opinion on the MAC Defender craze in a recent interview where he noted that it’s really not something to get all hyped-up about.
In an interview with the folks at Wired, Miller mentioned Microsoft - who recently said th... |
24 May 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Not even a week has passed since the official release of iOS 4.3 and already Apple is working to patch a newly-discovered flaw in the latest version of its mobile operating system powering iPads, iPhones, and iPod touch media players.
Discovered by renowned security researcher Charlie Miller of the consulting firm... |
14 March 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Apple-nemesis Charlie Miller says that iOS 4.3 still poses some of the security vulnerabilities he was able to exploit during a hacking contest recently, though people attempting to reproduce the hack will likely not succeed, he revealed in an interview.
A researcher with the consulting firm Independent Security E... |
11 March 2011
05:53 GMT |
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The iPhone 4 was compromised by renowned Mac hacker Charlie Miller during the second day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest by using a drive-by download attack.Miller collaborated on the exploit with Dion Blazakis, a colleague from Independent Security Evaluators, the company he works for.The attack exploited a vulnera... |
11 March 2011
04:50 GMT |
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In addition to releasing a preview of its Mac OS X Lion to registered developers, Apple is now reaching out to security experts to have the OS reviewed from a security standpoint.According to a report citing several security researchers, Apple has sent out a letter to a number of high-profile code-savvy individuals.T... |
26 February 2011
10:21 GMT |
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At a conference scheduled for next week, security consultant and application developer, Stefan Esser, plans to unveil a new jailbreak process for iOS-based devices that automatically secures them with ASLR, or address space layout randomization.For now, jailbreaking iPhones, iPod touches and iPads impacts a security ... |
15 December 2010
08:50 GMT |
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Renowned Mac hacker Charles Miller was happy to share a few thoughts on Mac security with the people at Mac Directory, who sat down with the researcher to find out exactly why Apple’s platform is labeled as being far more secure than Microsoft’s Windows, and how he ended up the leading and fastest hacker ... |
8 September 2010
05:07 GMT |
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Adobe announced that the upcoming out-of-band security updates, which will address several critical security issues in its Reader and Acrobat products, are expected to land tomorrow.Back in July, at the Black Hat security conference, reputed security researcher and Apple hacker Charlie Miller disclosed a previously u... |
18 August 2010
08:02 GMT |
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Adobe has confirmed a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability revealed by a security researcher during the Black Hat security conference last week. The company has yet to decide if it needs to break out of its quarterly update cycle in order to patch it.The Adobe bug was disclosed by renowned hacker and security... |
4 August 2010
03:24 GMT |
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At this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition, the renowned security researcher going by the name of Charlie Miller walked off with a new MacBook Pro computer, after exposing a vulnerability in the Mac OS X Safari browser, compromising the system. Miller, of Independent Security Evaluators, showed great discontent... |
26 March 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, a researcher for the Baltimore-based Internet Security Evaluators, has discovered new vulnerabilities in Apple’s Mac operating system, particularly mentioning the Preview application. As many as 30 such critical bugs (20 of which are present in Snow Leopard’s Preview) have been found by th... |
19 March 2010
08:03 GMT |
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In computing, Address Space Layout Randomization, or ASLR, is a function that randomly assigns data to the memory to make it more difficult for hackers to locate the critical operating system functions. Charlie Miller of Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators and hacker-extraordinaire claims to have found di... |
18 September 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, the winner of two consecutive editions of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, is signaling that a critical vulnerability exists in the way iPhones handle their text messages. According to the security expert, an attacker could exploit the hole even to turn on the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on a con... |
2 July 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Renowned Mac hacker Charlie Miller, who has won the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest two years in a row, has now found what is described as a potential security vulnerability in Apple's iPhone.According to a NetworkWorld report, the security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators discovered the possible fl... |
17 April 2009
03:15 GMT |
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In what looked like a Pwn2Own rerun, the CanSecWest conference this week saw security researcher Charlie Miller crack Safari on a machine running Mac OS X again. Miller was able to use an exploit he had already prepared to win the contest, just like he did last year. The researcher has granted the reporting rights of... |
19 March 2009
11:37 GMT |
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Word on the web is that the exploit Charlie Miller used to "pwn and own" Apple's MacBook Air at CanSecWest last month had actually been acknowledged and publicly revealed almost a year before the contest.NetworkWorld is reporting that security researcher Chris Evans said in an email interview that he found the b... |
22 April 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Updates are now available for Safari and Firefox (Mac and Windows) users. Both Safari 3.1.1 and FireFox 2.0.0.14 address security issues. As some of you may have already hinted, with the release of Safari 3.1.1, Apple has patched the flaw Charlie Miller used to win 10 Gs and a MacBook Air in the PWN 2 OWN contest at ... |
17 April 2008
03:13 GMT |
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